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Re: I actually kind of like nba.com's setup

Since we are set up to set rosters daily, is it wise to start all the guys that play on that day?

Or if it's going to be set by the week, do you pick the guys who play the most games that week, or is each player's stats averaged over all the games he played?

Obviously the emphasis on total points and not efficiency makes this a whole new ballgame. It makes a lot less sense to have players who don't play major minutes on your roster. At the old site, a guy giving you 15 good minutes every night was very valuable.

The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).

Re: I actually kind of like nba.com's setup

I've played only in Yahoo leagues for roto bball so far, but it sounds like NBA.com runs similar to that. With Yahoo, there was no strategy for setting lineups. You just put everyone who is playing that day into your "starting lineup" to get more pts, boards, asts, etc. Sometimes, you'll have more players with games that day than you have available spots, so you do have to decide which players to bench. But with a 24 team league, it'll probably be pretty obvious who should be in the game considering we're gonna have guys like Ryan Bowen, Brian Scalabrine and Michael Olowokandi on our squads.

Re: I actually kind of like nba.com's setup

Or if it's going to be set by the week, do you pick the guys who play the most games that week, or is each player's stats averaged over all the games he played?

Obviously the emphasis on total points and not efficiency makes this a whole new ballgame. It makes a lot less sense to have players who don't play major minutes on your roster. At the old site, a guy giving you 15 good minutes every night was very valuable.

I wanted to follow up on this to make sure I understand the scoring.

The league rules page says this is the scoring:

Scoring Configuration

Assists/Game

Pts: 2

Blocked Shots/Game

Pts: 2.5

Defensive Rebounds/Game

Pts: 1.5

Offensive Rebounds/Game

Pts: 2

Personal Fouls

Pts: -0.5

Points Scored/Game

Pts: 1

Steals/Game

Pts: 2

Technical Fouls

Pts: -1

Turnovers/Game

Pts: -1.5

Most of the categories are "/game", which I assume means the scoring will be based on the weekly per game averages and not the total number of points earned during the week? So the number of games a player has in the week doesn't matter? (and if fouls and techs aren't per game would a player with more games in a week be penalized due to the probable higher number of total fouls?)

Most of the categories are "/game", which I assume means the scoring will be based on the weekly per game averages and not the total number of points earned during the week? So the number of games a player has in the week doesn't matter? (and if fouls and techs aren't per game would a player with more games in a week be penalized due to the probable higher number of total fouls?)

That's not the Keeper League scoring. You made me nervous for a minute.